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This Mother's Day, I'm appreciating the Motorhead Mamas in my family and how they made me the woman I am today. You see, I come from a long, proud line of sharp- tongued, red-blooded and lead-footed women. My grandmother once drove her pale pink Aries K up onto the sidewalk, proceeded to flatten a stop sign and immediately instructed us in the backseat to "quit your worrying." (Grandma's weapon of choice, the...

Full disclosure: I’m a Beemer fan. For about a decade now, I’ve been addicted to the slow morphine drip that is the Ultimate Driving Machine. And good for you Bavaria, you’ve made great cars with amazing performance and a new car smell that I would spray behind my ears if I could. But given the fact that I’ve poured my retirement account into your coffers,...

Yesterday on Twitter, my friends at Jalopnik asked the intriguing question “Would you trade America’s Car Market for Europe’s?” And my answer is– Yes, please. I’ll take both. That’s why I’m planning a European Invasion. Who’s with me? Europe’s economy is in the toilet and we’ve got plenty of our own problems at home. So I figure let’s take some of our good ole American...

Everybody knows that a car can get you laid. That’s luxury car sales 101. But it’s also clear that a car can also do the opposite– keep you from gettin’ any. To illustrate, I give you Chastity Belt On Wheels, Article A: Obvious, right? Any idiot who covers his Beemer in blue painters’ tape is probably the same guy who uses a sandwich bag for...

It takes a strong woman to admit when you’re wrong. And Mr. Camaro, I’ve been wrong about you. But you gotta understand–growing up, Camaros were driven by, well, Guidos and Dirtbags. (If you’re not from the East Coast, you may have to Google that action.) Anyway, for years it was impossible for me to appreciate the low purr of your v8 (not to mention the...

For too long now, the van has been, well, mini. Or Scooby: Or Barbie: But a lot of us grew up with a van that did stuff like this: So, as SUVs get more expensive and more focused on cup holders than rock crawling, the van is emerging as our do-everything alternative. It all...